UTS dividends for St. Maarten
PHILIPSBURG - United Telecommunication Services (UTS) owes 42 million Antillean guilders in dividends from 2012 up to and including 2015, of which country St. Maarten is to get NAf. 5.25 million. That was announced More...
UTS still has to pay the government 37 million
WILLEMSTAD - The government still has to receive another 37 million guilders from the telecommunication company UTS. This is according to the Minister of Finance, Kenneth Gijsbertha. It is a dividend for the years More...
Layoffs at UTS has started
WILLEMSTAD - The first dismissal round at the telecommunication company UTS has started. 180 employees of the company were told yesterday that the end is in sight. 100 have already voluntarily left. The 180 layoffs More...
UTS Committee members resign
WILLEMSTAD - The person that was appointed by the Minister of Transport, Traffic and Spatial Planning to oversee the process of layoff at telecommunication company UTS, Valdemar Marcha has announced his resignation. More...
Strategy
A strategy is a plan of action to achieve a set of objectives. Although the term reminds us of warfare, we can also consider business a type of war, as the failure to have a strategy in place might lead to the loss More...
Foreign employees UTS first to go
UTS plans to dismiss almost 300 of the 500 employees WILLEMSTAD - Foreign employees of the telecommunication company UTS threaten to become victims of the discussions between the company, the government and the More...
Unions suspend actions and give government 48 hours
WILLEMSTAD - During their most recent press conference, the unions declared that they will take two days to come to a solution with the government for the issues of the minimum wage and the dismissal round at the More...
Prime Minister: “We are not negotiating with the unions!”
WILLEMSTAD - During the press conference of the Council of Ministers, the Prime Minister of Curaçao Eugene Rhuggenaath indicated that the government is not negotiating with the trade unions. There will be no counter-proposal. More...
Prime Minister: “I don’t understand why they are still on strike!”
WILLEMSTAD - The Prime Minister of Curaçao Eugene Rhuggenaath said in an interview that he doesn’t understand what the unions still want to achieve. “As a government, we have met the unions on all three points More...
Unions fail to muster enough support for their demonstration
WILLEMSTAD - The proclaimed strike and manifestation on Wilhelminaplein did not get the support or the number of people the trade unions hoped for. According to several sources, there were about one hundred people More...
